International

• Wednesday, April 27th 2022 - 07:54 UTC

  Bird flu reported in Chinese boy – first human case of H3N8

  

  Chinese authorities Tuesday reported the first case in humans of H3N8 Avian influenza, although health specialists explained the risk of a large-scale epidemic was low.

• Tuesday, April 26th 2022 - 20:59 UTC

  Shanghai tightens up covid-19 restrictions

  

  Chinese authorities have tightened sanitary restrictions imposed on Shanghai residents due to an increase in the number of COVID-19 deaths and also of cases detected through mass testing, it was reported.

• Tuesday, April 26th 2022 - 20:51 UTC

  Uruguayan opposition demands explanations regarding Turkish FM incident

  

  Uruguay's opposition Broad Front (Frente Amplio) has threatened not to grant their consent to the country's designated ambassador to Turkey following the incident with that country's Foreign Minister, who during the weekend when Armenian demonstrators in Montevideo were met with a gesture belonging to the far-right Grey Wolves group.

• Tuesday, April 26th 2022 - 09:59 UTC

  Turkish FM racist and ultra-right-wing gestures in Montevideo sparks controversies

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou described a gesture by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu against Armenian demonstrators in Montevideo Uruguay as “regrettable,” while Ankara's Ambassador has been summoned to account for the events.

• Tuesday, April 26th 2022 - 09:51 UTC

  Putin's health in doubt following circulation of video footage

  

  Video footage of Russian President Vladimir Putin looking shaky, unsteady, and distracted, which went viral over the last few days has resurfaced rumors worldwide about the health of the 69-year-old leader.

• Tuesday, April 26th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Record wildfires and floods in Europe's 2021 summer, the hottest on record

  

  Europe experienced the hottest summer on record in 2021, according to EU scientists in their Copernicus Climate Change Service report. The temperature in Europe was one degree Celsius above the 1991-2020 average.

• Tuesday, April 26th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  World's Penguin Day, five of 18 species live in the Falkland Islands

  

  April 25, marks World Penguin Day, an opportunity for many wildlife organizations to tout conservation efforts for these charismatic, amphibious birds. It’s nearly winter in the southern hemisphere, and April 25 coincides with Antarctic penguins’ annual northward march to the sea.

• Tuesday, April 26th 2022 - 09:43 UTC

  Guyana's first million barrels sale from the Liza Unity production platform

  

  Guyana has sold a cargo of one million barrels of its newest crude to ExxonMobil for US$106 per barrel, which was the first share for the government from the newly operational Liza Unity production platform operated by Exxon, according to Tsvetana Paraskova from Oilprice.com.

• Tuesday, April 26th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  UK named world's fourth-biggest Defense spender in 2021, SIPRI report

  

  A new report says the UK moved into the world's top five military spenders in 2021 as the US remains the biggest spender by some distance. The annual report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) also revealed that for the first time ever, global military expenditure exceeded US$ 2 trillion.

• Tuesday, April 26th 2022 - 08:47 UTC

  Oldest person in the world dies aged 119

  

  Japanese citizen Kane Tanaka, who had been certified as the world's oldest person, died Monday at the age of 119 and 108 days, it was reported.